Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

When the inevitable disruption occurs, having well-documented and regularly rehearsed plans will enable you to respond and recover. Performing a tabletop exercise or running tests of recovery procedures does not benefit the organization if done in isolation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2024

Additionally, eClinicalWorks released a customer survey indicating 65% of providers believe AI can support physicians with clinical documentation. Healthcare cybersecurity vendor Clearwater integrated PCI 4.0 Sales Connecticut-based medical group Prime HealthCare implemented athenahealth. and NIST CSF 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. About Ryan Witt Ryan Witt is a healthcare cybersecurity leader at the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Read more… Emerging Technologies Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery. Answers to this question for Healthcare IT Today experts emphasize how predictive modeling, ambient documentation, inpatient telehealth, and virtual nursing are poised to change care delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Healthcare organizations need to have robust security tools and protocols in place not only to safeguard their data, but to protect the health of the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Security Documentation is Essential As a general rule, manufacturers are responsible for the security of the software in their products. Security documentation starts at the code level and requires a high degree of automation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

You have an inventory of whats on your network and conduct vulnerability scanning and remediation and this is all documented. The SEC requires risk governance with executive attendance, as well as cybersecurity advisory to boards of directors. Documentation is the key. Risk governance is a weak spot for many organizations.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 22, 2023

Prior to that, he held leadership positions at Accolade Health (personalized care delivery navigation and advocacy), nuVizz (hospital system logistics), and Pinn (healthcare cybersecurity). Sharma is also credited with pioneering Microsoft’s entry into mobile digital media and running the largest P&L at Samsung Mobile.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Two-thirds of of healthcare cybersecurity decision makers said senior leadership teams continues to underestimate cyberthreats to their organization , according to a survey from Google subsidiary Mandiant. AI-powered medical documentation tool Abridge appointed Zachary Lipton as Chief Scientific Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

By automating routine tasks such as appointment scheduling, billing, and documentation, clinical staff can spend more time focusing on patient care. Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring can also help healthcare organizations extend their reach and provide care to patients in remote areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This means that paper documents and manila folders are no longer sufficient to meet today’s healthcare privacy needs – instead, healthcare professionals are shifting their confidential documents and storing patient records in the Cloud for efficiency, security, and cost-effectiveness. The answer is quite simple.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When considering healthcare cybersecurity best practices, HIPAA security risk assessments and HIPAA remediation plans are essential. With October being “Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” security education and planning should be at the top of the list for many healthcare businesses. .

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The manual logging of patient records is resulting in piles of paper documentation, which doctors are saying could take months to input into the online system once it’s restored. Other solutions should be implemented to secure the web applications that hospitals use to accept, process, and store patient records and documents.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Risk management vendor Censinet, KLAS Research, the AHA, and others are launching Wave 3 of The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study. Data analytics platform Arcadia launched a point-of-care generative AI assistant to improve risk factor documentation.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 24, 2022

The current NIST cybersecurity framework explains cybersecurity best practices but still lacks information on the practical application of these standards. The revision is more actionable so that health care organizations can improve their cybersecurity posture and comply with the Security Rule. NIST Healthcare Guide Overview.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

Encrypt All Communications – All data transmissions sent between both software systems and physical devices must be encrypted at source to render PHI unreadable to cyber criminals Invest in Employee Training – Frequent staff training must be provided covering how to spot social engineering attempts, how to safely access PHI, how to properly (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Read more… Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersecurity. Erik Decker at Intermountain Health and Ed Gaudet at Censinet sat down with John to discuss two initiatives to encourage collaboration among cybersecurity stakeholders, improve visibility into cybersecurity risks, and fight back against cyberattacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records. ChristianaCare CISO Anahi Santiago received the Routhy Award , given to one healthcare cybersecurity professional each year. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $3.7

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2023

Partnerships Augmedix and HCA Healthcare are jointly developing ambient documentation products for the acute care setting; HCA is also making a financial investment in Augmedix. Healthcare cybersecurity company Clearwater received a patent for Predictive Risk Rating within its IRM|Analysis software.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We’re seeing healthcare organizations strengthen their identity verification for patients and staff to ensure that only authorized individuals can access patient data. However, organizations must account for the complexities related to access and ‘techquity’ unique to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

His team constantly engages with clients to document problems and prioritize the highest-impact issues his team needs to solve. About Nathan Shepard Nathan Shepard has been working for over 15 years to understand the problems physicians face in improving patient care and profitability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

Enhanced Documentation and Reporting: AI tools are expected to streamline the documentation and reporting processes in regulatory affairs, using natural language processing to generate and organize required documents more accurately and swiftly.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

Announcements from HIMSS Lack of staff is the top barrier to robust cybersecurity for 61% of healthcare organizations, according to the HIMSS 2022 Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report. 3M Health Information Systems is collaborating with AWS to incorporate generative AI into M*Modal clinical documentation.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Politico’s recent investigation revealed a record number of cyber security breaches in healthcare, exposing the protected health information of an estimated 50 million people. Healthcare data is highly sought after. Financial Damages Highest for Security Breaches in Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

Develops processes and procedures to validate information technology infrastructure, other reference architectures, configurations and access to cybersecurity infrastructure for industry best practices, and recommend changes to enhance cybersecurity posture and reduce risk where applicable.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2024

Develop contingency plans including well-documented manual workarounds and disaster recovery scenarios. For all the players who experienced outages, the message is the core “zero trust” mantra — set up processes and procedures to test changes to infrastructure that are initiated from outside your walls.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Unlike paper-based systems, EHR allows for integrated care management, ensuring every healthcare professional involved in a patient’s care has up-to-date information. EHR not only streamlines documentation but also supports long-term disease control by making it easier to track patient progress and coordinate care among specialists.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

With over 70 million secure messages sent and received each month, it’s clear that Direct Secure Messaging has become an integral part of modern healthcare communication. Its applications include transmitting referrals, continuity of care documents (CCDs), and more, all while maintaining the highest level of security.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

Staffing shortages are driving the need for artificial intelligence to accelerate innovation, particularly for patient diagnosis, treatment and home healthcare. In the same study, nurses expressed that documentation, or “hunting and gathering” takes up about 15% of their time during a shift, rather than patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions Value Based Care Predictions And now, check out our community’s Value Based Care predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form. This will be top of mind as companies recognize the need to componentize or break up existing documents.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Vendor oversight and control are also key topics such as monitoring and documenting results, corrective actions, and ensuring intended results are achieved. Data quality, reliability, and representativeness standards are also impacting how companies perform validation and verification of code and train their data sets.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Natalia Arzeno-Gonzalez, Chief Data Scientist at Infinx Healthcare Over the past year, we’ve witnessed a significant surge in generative AI research and innovation. 2024 promises to be a groundbreaking year in healthcare optimization, with gen AI redefining various facets of revenue cycle management.

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